新视野下的中国经济史(英文版)

Part I Journal articles and book chapters
Changes in Climate, Land, and Human Efforts: The Production of Wet-f iled Rice in Jiangnan During the Ming and Qing Dynasties 3
Was There a “Thirteenth-and-Fourteenth-Century Turning-Point”? Population, Land, Technology, and Farm Management 44
Farm Labor Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 98
Rural Economy in Jiangnan During the Late Imperial Times 125
Wages in Huating-Lou Counties in the 1820s 142
Involution and Chinese Cotton Textile Production: Songjiang in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 181
An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of the Huating-Lou Area, 1823-1829 190
Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century 206
The “Daoguang Depression” and the “Guiwei Great Flood”: Economic Decline and Climatic Cataclysm in Early Nineteenth-Century Songjiang in a New Perspective 245
The Early Modern Economy of the Yangzi Delta in a New Perspective 273
An Examination of Traditional Research Methods in Economic History—“Choosing the Ref ined”, “Collecting the Essential” and “the Agricultural Revolution in the Yangzi Delta During the Song Dynasty” 296
Economic History in China—Tradition, Divergence and Potential 307
Water and the History of China 334
The Termination of the Silk Road: A Study of the History of the Silk Road in a New Perspective 347
Book Review: Ni, Yuping Customs Duties in the Qing Dynasty, ca 1644-1911 Leiden: Brill, 2016 365
Author’s Preface: Preface to An Early Modern Economy in China: The Yangzi Delta in the 1820s 370
Part II Conference and lecture papers
The Development of Agriculture and Industry in Jiangnan, 1644-1850: Trends and Prospects 377
Traditional Peasant Culture: The Root of China’s Economic Miracle 408
The Formation of China’s National Market, 1550-1840 419
Internationalization and Indigenization: The Principal Axis Along which Social and Economic Historiography Has Evolved in China During the Past Two Decades 495
The Farm Economy of Songjiang in the Early Nineteenth Century 500
Involution or Not Involution: The Farm Economy of Songjiang and the Theory of Involution in Chinese Studies 544
Climate, Market, Economy and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis 570
“The countrymen are well fed” —A Study of Food Consumption in Early-Nineteenth Century Songjiang 580
Creating a Modern Army: The Late Ming Military Reform under the Shadow of FInancial Crisis 587
Why Does the Theory of the Great Divergence Matter?—Taking the Case of the Study of the Economic History of the Yangzi Delta 599
Notes of Papers 621